Identification of Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants)

please help me determine
if they were taken today in the Nizhny Novgorod region

pair-probably Osmia bicornis (=Osmia rufa)
the rest of the photos are all Andrena sp., up to the type of horseradish poymesh

Myrmica? Moscow, Losino-Ostrovsky Park. Today.

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Myrmica? Moscow, Losino-Ostrovsky Park. Today.

Nooooo. Not Myrmica. It doesn't look like it at all.
Most likely Lasius fuliginosus.

Nooooo. Not Myrmica. It doesn't look like it at all.
Probably Lasius fuliginosus.

By the way, I also assumed this when I approached them. But after looking at the photo, I thought that they were too "frail" with a non-round and not so big head. And for L. Niger, they are too big. Maybe these are such weak spring workers?
But the paths on the ground are really like those of fuliginosus. I'll be glad if it's them.

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This post was edited by amara - 03.05.2013 18: 50

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By the way, I also assumed this when I approached them. But after looking at the photo, I thought that they were too "frail" with a non-round and not so big head. And for L. Niger, they are too big. Maybe these are such weak spring workers?
But the paths on the ground are really like those of fuliginosus. I'll be glad if it's them.

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They are this. By the way, where do your birds nest? In our Leningrad region, I have seen their nests in the wood of old deciduous trees, mainly on poplars.

They are this. By the way, where do your birds nest? In our Leningrad region, I met their nests in the wood of old deciduous trees, mainly on poplars.

Thank you. For some reason, I thought that fuliginosus should be more powerful in general. And then I haven't seen them for a long time.
I don't know where these birds nest, but I know that there are no poplars in this place.

Please tell me, is this Praia taczanowskii Wankowicz, 1880?
Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, 04.05.2013. The length is about 18 mm.

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please help me determine
if they were taken today in the Nizhny Novgorod region

Red osmia. Males with a white muzzle and smaller size.

Please tell me, is this Praia taczanowskii Wankowicz, 1880?
Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, 04.05.2013. The length is about 18 mm.

If sclerosis doesn't change me we don't have any other similar ones

It is similar to the female Oxybelus quattuordecimnotatus, but not all signs are suitable. 7 mm in length. The hind (full) and middle thighs are black with yellow spots. The mandibles are light, the sides are clad with teeth, and the keel is raised rather short in the center. The lateral scales of the posteriorph are bifurcated at the apex. The spike of the intermediate segment in the middle is slightly expanded, with a noticeable notch at the top. Lower legs are black with yellow longitudinal spots. The pygidium is red, the rest of the abdomen is black. The 2nd sternite is shiny, with clear, rather rough spots on the sides, and very rare, rather large spots in the middle.

South of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. 5 mm. Male. The apex of the platypus is well marked with median teeth and paired laterally, located quite close to the median. The middle keel is visible from above, more like a low and not sharp roller. The lower legs are almost completely yellow, only on the hind legs there are small dark brown darkening on the inner side. 7 tergite is brown, with teeth visible on the top and sides of 5-6 tergites. The lateral scales of the posteriorph are bifurcated at the apex. Average growth of the gap. the segment is narrow and rather long. By DV, I go to victor, but judging by Pulavsky, as I understand it, it is reduced to a synonym for haemorrhoidalis. But maybe I messed up something with the signs. The 2nd sternite is poorly visible, but from the sides it is clearly in large points, in the middle in rare large points

South of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, male, 5 mm. Similar to Oxybelus argentatus. The face is narrower, the front edge of the platband with 3 teeth. The median keel is powerful and well developed, with two light spots on the sides. Body punctuation is coarser (mid-spine, 1-2 tergites). The lateral scales of the posteriorph are not bifurcated. Gap growth. the segment is long, narrow, and pointed at the top. The middle and hind legs are almost completely red, with yellow spots, only the base of the thighs is dark brown. The pygidium is dark. 2nd sternite at infrequent explicit points. On the tops of sternites there are rows of rare long hairs.

Please tell me, is this Praia taczanowskii Wankowicz, 1880?
Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, 04.05.2013. The length is about 18 mm.

If I saw the venation correctly, it is Pseudoclavellaria amerinae (Linnaeus, 1758). At Praia taczanowskii an. the cells are tight. Pseudoclavellaria amerinae and Praia taczanowskii are similar, but they differ well in the structure of the head capsule, the shape of the mandibles and upper lip (this is unfortunately not visible in the photo), plus Praia taczanowskii is usually smaller, hairier and without a metallic shine on the chest (by the way, it is in the photo).

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Dear colleagues, help with the animal
Photo better make alas can not, because there is only a poor soap dish...
Kemerovo region, on blooming willow 28.04.2013

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If I saw the venation correctly, it is Pseudoclavellaria amerinae (Linnaeus, 1758). At Praia taczanowskii an. the cells are tight. Pseudoclavellaria amerinae and Praia taczanowskii are similar, but they differ well in the structure of the head capsule, the shape of the mandibles and upper lip (this is unfortunately not visible in the photo), plus Praia taczanowskii is usually smaller, hairier and without a metallic shine on the chest (by the way, it is in the photo).

Thank you very much. Another photo on the account of venation. Not with the head. And in the picture from this page
http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/pse...a_amerinae.html are the cells tight? I don't remember the big white lip or the big mandibles. A female, I presume; the male's belly is all black, isn't it?" And the female's mandibles are more modest? Willows are present in the area.

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Thank you very much. Another photo on the account of venation. Not with the head. And in the picture from this page http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/pse...a_amerinae.html are the cells tight? I don't remember the big white lip or the big mandibles. A female, I presume; the male's belly is all black, isn't it?" And the female's mandibles are more modest? Willows are present in the area.

The photo is exactly Pseudoclavellaria amerinae, here the venation is clearly visible. Cells with transverse veins, for an example of tightened cells, I attach a photo of aiib from the Internet (I just didn't find a suitable photo of Praia). The male Pseudoclavellaria amerinae is really black with a large white lip and mandibles, the female has noticeably smaller mandibles and lip (this is also typical for the genus Trichiosoma and several other genera whose names I don't remember ... some Leptocimbex, for example, show differences just like in some deer beetles). In any case, the jaws and upper lip of Praia are still noticeably smaller than even in the female Pseudoclavellaria, well, of a different shape.
About the source http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/pse...a_amerinae.html, there on the 1st and 6th photos in general, some representatives of Trichiosoma are depicted

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They are this. By the way, where do your birds nest? In our Leningrad region, I met their nests in the wood of old deciduous trees, mainly on poplars.

In the photo were really fuliginozusy. In the Moscow region, they prefer birch trees. I saw one nest in a willow tree.

Kiev region on May 3.in a rotten trunk ?trees
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It looks like a female camponotus. Possible Camponotus fallax, but not sure.

Good evening. Please help me identify it. N. Novgorod, today.

Good evening. Please help me identify it. N. Novgorod, today.

Sphecodes sp.

Sphecodes sp.

Thanks!

Hello. Minusinsky district, Bystrica village.
On the rocks I saw interesting nests, they were in the form of small growths of dense material (something mixed with sand) located directly on the rocks, up to 10 holes in each. Bees similar in shape to megachiles flew out of them, closer to large ones, like logopoda, but the color intensity was more saturated, they were bright dark brick color. Or some kind of halikodoma. Unfortunately, I was without a net and couldn't catch the imago.
I attach a photo of the biotope and the nest itself

Hello. Minusinsky district, Bystrica village.
On the rocks I saw interesting nests, they were in the form of small growths of dense material (something mixed with sand) located directly on the rocks, up to 10 holes in each. Bees similar in shape to megachiles flew out of them, closer to large ones, like logopoda, but the color intensity was more saturated, they were bright dark brick color. Or some kind of halikodoma. Unfortunately, I was without a net and couldn't catch the imago.
I attach a photo of the biotope and the nest itself

We have exactly the same nests built by Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina, brick-colored bees are their males, while the females are blue-black. If they are listed in your region, then (most likely) they are exactly what they are, if not - something very close to the same subgenus.

I didn't come across any. I will have to ask Maxim, thank you Alexandr

I photographed ants at the dacha and at the same time I got such a beast. If you don't mind, please tell me who it is. Moscow oblast. The size is about 16 mm. Estimated at a glance. I might have made a mistake.

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I'm really not an expert, but I think it's Ichneumon albiger
http://nature-mordovia.ru/index.php/2010-1...to/21/1627.html

it seems to be suitable for all signs on Polistes snelleni, if so, and judging by the data indicated in the DV identifier, then this is an extremely western point of its location or not?
Krasnoyarsk Territory, Minusinsky district

Dolichonespula saxonica?

We have exactly the same nests built by Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina, brick-colored bees are their males, while the females are blue-black. If they are listed in your region, then (most likely) they are exactly what they are, if not - something very close to the same subgenus.

Gentlemen.... Where is halikodoma, and where is Minusinsk????? The halicodome has external nests!!!! Look for it either in antofory or in khalikty! What to do - dig out one of the burrows, if the nest looks like a brush-anthophora! If-cellular-halikt! You can only talk about species by imago!
Although, there may be some more variations, but everything is decided by the nest, if there is no imago!

Dare to assume everything-halikty, but the question of the diameter of the holes, the height of the "plaque".....

This post was edited by Oldcatcher - 05/19/2013 00: 17

Hmm, familiar slogans… But just explain to me why it is for the sake of specialists "should share ... information with the "people"? With the very one who considers almost all scientists parasites who satisfy their interests for people's money (by the way, very, very modest and paid for the very articles that "only a few specialists will read").

Researchers, like other creative people, are not guided by the "desire to bring knowledge to the masses", but only by their own curiosity, the desire to solve the problems they face. And this applies not only to biology.

So, we don't owe anyone anything! If I have an itch for popularization, and I want to share "with the masses", then I can do it. And I will share only those results that I think have already been solved. But no more than that. But what is currently under investigation is the area of exclusively my professional interests.

Yeah.... After these words, my teachers-Gornotaev G. N., Klimashevsky S. M. And others, I will not pour out surnames.... Just a hand would not be given to you! Or just smiled politely! But most likely both.... Why do WORLD-renowned scientists freely share information with"amateurs"? Can I give you a list?
And research is not creativity, it is painstaking, painful, and often invaluable work! If you want - the work of a prospector at the mine! A "creative" - the creators of concepts and view writers "creative" easily go into obscurity in life! Lead list???
But we won't discuss it any further. Your right to share information or not. It is your right to correct or not your fellow collectors! But no one has the right to wear a crown and be proud of it! Please excuse my abruptness. Just your remark is CATEGORICALLY different from the manner of communication of serious scientists, to communicate with which I am used! But don't swear, I'm getting old)))))

This post was edited by Oldcatcher - 05/19/2013 02: 17

Gentlemen.... Where is halikodoma, and where is Minusinsk????? The halicodome has external nests!!!! Look for it either in antofory or in khalikty! What to do - dig out one of the burrows, if the nest looks like a brush-anthophora! If-cellular-halikt! You can only talk about species by imago!
Although, there may be some more variations, but everything is decided by the nest, if there is no imago!

Dare to assume everything-halikty, but the question of the diameter of the holes, the height of the "plaque".....

in general the dispute will be resolved by the caught imago

2Oldcatcher
Hmm... New faces in this thread. They would have introduced themselves... And then it is not clear how far you are from halikodoma and from Minusinsk too
As for the nests. Then Sasha Vateryga's opinion should be trusted, since it is difficult to find more competent megachilid nesting sites in the former Soviet Union than him and Ivanov.
By halikodome. Megachile (Chalicodoma) desertorum Morawitz, 1875 occurs in southern Buryatia and Tuva. Most likely, this species is also found in Minusinsk. By the way, Minusinsk is a very interesting place, from where many perepons, including bees, have been described. And there are enough rarities there. For example, in the summer of 2012, Comrade akulich-sibiria caught Epeoloides coecutiens (Fabricius, 1775) , one of the rarest bees in the Palearctic.

2Oldcatcher
On your second post (regarding the AVA text)
You know, I agree with him in many ways. Too often you have to "throw beads in front of pigs", sorry for such a comparison (I'm not talking about guys from the forum, but rather about officials who periodically dump incomprehensible obligations on us).
As for AVA, he performs a very responsible, important, but not paid at all (and invisible to many) work as a curator of the second most important collection of Russian icons. Here you are, just for the sake of curiosity, look at how many articles his name is mentioned in gratitude, then maybe the attitude will change

What kind of rider? A large one. Mordovia, early May

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it seems to be suitable for all signs on Polistes snelleni, if so, and judging by the data indicated in the DV identifier, then this is an extremely western point of its location or not?
Krasnoyarsk Territory, Minusinsky district

Yes, this is P. snelleni. And, indeed, sakmaya western point. So far, this species has been recorded only east of Lake Baikal. Baikal.

Dolichonespula saxonica?

Also true-female Dolichovespula saxonica.

Dear colleagues, help with the animal
Photo better make alas can not, because there is only a poor soap dish...
Kemerovo region, on blooming willow 28.04.2013

Female Podalonia hirsuta (Scopoli, 1763) (Sphecidae, Ammophilinae)

THANK YOU, Alexander, I have previously exhibited oxybelusov, there will be time to take a look. Thank You

What kind of rider? A large one. Mordovia, early May

Echthrus reluctator (Linnaeus, 1758) - (Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae)

And after the last posts, again about Ichneumon - you can not determine them from photos!!!
Do not be lazy, take a look at the key for the genus in the "green" - 264 theses only for females (for b. h. males there is no key!) and what signs are used to determine...
Even with a copy on hand, it is not always possible to determine them with confidence, you need a series and preferably a reference collection, confirmed by a specialist, of which there are simply no Stenopneustica in Russia now, after A. P. Rasnitsyn switched to fossil eels, we now have perhaps only Alexander Tereshkin from Belarus...
And if you want to try to identify ichneumons yourself, find Hilpert's revision-Hilpert H. 1992: Zur Systematik der Gattung Ichneumon Linnaeus un der Westpalaearktis-Entomofauna. Supplement 6: 3-389.
If you have enough patience to figure it out, you may like it later

Yeah.... After these words, my teachers-Gornotaev G. N., Klimashevsky S. M. And others, I will not pour out surnames.... Just a hand would not be given to you! Or just smiled politely! But most likely both.... Why do WORLD-renowned scientists freely share information with"amateurs"? Can I give you a list?
And research is not creativity, it is painstaking, painful, and often invaluable work! If you want - the work of a prospector at the mine! A "creative" - the creators of concepts and view writers "creative" easily go into obscurity in life! Lead list???
But we won't discuss it any further. Your right to share information or not. It is your right to correct or not your fellow collectors! But no one has the right to wear a crown and be proud of it! Please excuse my abruptness. Just your remark is CATEGORICALLY different from the manner of communication of serious scientists, to communicate with which I am used! But don't swear, I'm getting old)))))

Yes.... After these words, my teachers-Gornotaev G. N., Klimashevsky S. M. And others, I will not pour out surnames.... Just a hand would not be given to you! Or just smiled politely! But most likely both....

I don't know S. M. Klimashevsky, but I was very close to G. N. Gornostaev. I don't think you're right about the hand and the smiles. It is more likely that he would have understood my position.

Why do WORLD-renowned scientists freely share information with"amateurs"? Can I give you a list?

Well, yes, they are divided, but in very limited quantities. And not the one they're currently working on. And here's a list, please. It would be interesting to get acquainted…

And research is not creativity, it is painstaking, painful, and often invaluable work! If you want - the work of a prospector at the mine! A "creative" - the creators of concepts and view writers "creative" easily go into obscurity in life! Should I give you a list???

It is not necessary to explain what scientific research is to a person with more than 30 years of experience in just such work. Otherwise, I didn't understand much of your maxims. Although it would also be interesting to get acquainted with the list of obscure "view writers" [sic].

...Your right to share information or not. It is your right to correct or not your fellow collectors! But no one has the right to wear a crown and be proud of it!

Yes, this is my right, and I will use it for the time being. But please give me an excerpt from my posts where I "put on" [sic] the crown and am proud of it.

But I suspect that your righteous anger is simply caused by a misunderstanding of the question, since you yourself are obviously very far from the scientific field in which I move.